The official race among the parents for the nursery seats will begin from December 15 and the eligibility criteria for the same will be released tomorrow.
Private schools in the national capital have been instructed by the Directorate of Education to released the eligibility criteria for the nursery, kindergarten and class 1 admission tomorrow. There are about 1600 private schools in the capital and they will release their criteria and point systems tomorrow which will decide the final admission list. The enrollment process will end in March.
Application submission will continue until January 7, 2019, and the first admission list is expected on February 4, 2019.
Following the orders of the Delhi High Court, the government has put an age cap on the nursery admissions this year. Children below the age of 4 years will be eligible for the admission in the nursery class and less than six years for admission to class 1.
25 percent of the total seats will be available for the children belonging to economically weaker sections/ disadvantaged groups (EWS/ DG) category.
“No deviation from the above schedule shall be permitted. Each school shall display the aforesaid admission schedule on its notice board and website,” the Directorate has said.
“Each school shall ensure that application forms for admission are made available to all applicants till the last date of submission of admission,” it further added.